Letter: Sir Gerald Kaufman obituary

Stephen Bates’s obituary of Sir Gerald Kaufman notes that as a student Kaufman was chairman of the Oxford University Labour Club. In that capacity the author of the now famous description of Labour’s 1983 election manifesto as “the longest suicide note in history” himself wrote a manifesto, of which I was the co-author.

Ours was an alternative to Labour’s 1951 offering, with which we were both deeply dissatisfied. It was entitled Labour Believes in Socialism.